STELLING
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WINDMILL AND MUSEUM
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Contact Windmill & Museum - e-mail: shelaghcarter5@yahoo.co.uk
About the Windmill Volunteers and Guides 2008 Windmill Fete
The Windmill is off the B 2068, the main Canterbury to Hythe Road,
about 7 miles south of Canterbury. See home page for map
OPENS EASTER SUNDAY & MONDAY
2-5pm
Then every Sunday and Bank Holiday Monday until the end of September
Special Group Bookings by arrangement
CREAM TEAS AVAILABLE
For information e-mail shelaghcarter5@yahoo.co.uk
The
Grade One listed picturesque wooden smock mill at Stelling Minnis, between
Canterbury, Folkestone and Ashford, has been completely renovated to
repair weather damage. The picture on the left is as it was and the one on
the right the newly restored mill. Both pictures by Annie Woods.
The Mill is in Mill Lane, a turning off Curtis Lane at its junction with Bossingham Road.
The mill is owned by Kent County Council and managed by Stelling Minnis Parish Council.
It was built by the Holman brothers of Canterbury in 1866 and is known as Davison’s Mill after the family who worked it for a century until the last miller Alec Davison died in 1970.
The renovation was carried out by I.J.P. Conservation incorporating The Chiltern Partnership of Oxfordshire at a cost of £120,000. The money being provided jointly by the Heritage Lottery Fund and Kent County Council and the work took three months. The mill itself and its associated museum was closed to visitors during renovation work.
The mill’s sweeps and sails were dismantled on Friday, 19 July, and the mill’s cap taken off on Saturday, 20 July (2003). Both have now been replaced.
The museum tells the story of mills and millers, the local agricultural scene, and includes a diorama of the ancient manorial common of Stelling Minnis, one of the few remaining unenclosed commons in the South East.
This water colour painting is by Derry Lowe, one of the Stelling Minnis Art Club members.
For other historical information - visit the Historical Society Web Page - click here
The Windmill & Museum will be open
Sundays and Bank Holiday Mondays 2-5pm from
Easter Sunday to end of September
cream teas available
We rely very heavily on the help of the community for the open day afternoons to ensure visitors have a memorable experience, both touring the Mill and enjoying the Cream Teas that we offer.
Have you given a thought to helping, but perhaps felt unable to commit yourself due to not knowing what this entails? There will be two “open” afternoons at the Mill – from 2-4pm on Sunday 9th March and again the following Sunday, 16th March. Why not come along, have a chat with the volunteers and decide if you would like to be involved with the Windmill in any way – no obligation!
If you can’t make either of these open afternoons and would like to help – training sessions will be arranged - do please contact Shelagh Carter.
Page designed and produced for Stelling Minnis Windmill & Museum by Nick Smith - 25 October 2002
Updated 15 June 2008
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